Turkmen people
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| File:Senior Citizen in Ashgabat.jpg Turkmen man of Ashgabat wearing a traditional Kalpak hat | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| c. 6 million[a] | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Turkmenistan Turkmenistan | |
| 4,248,000 | |
| Iran Iran | 1,328,585 |
| File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey | 230,000–1 million |
| Afghanistan Afghanistan | 200,000 |
| Uzbekistan Uzbekistan | 152,000 |
| Pakistan Pakistan | 110,000 |
| Russia Russia | 46,885 |
| Tajikistan Tajikistan | 15,171 |
| File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan | 10,000 |
| Ukraine Ukraine | 7,709 |
| File:Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg Kyrgyzstan | 5,200 |
| File:Flag of Kazakhstan.svg Kazakhstan | 3,000 |
| File:Flag of the United States.svg United States | 3,000 |
| File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom | 784 |
| Languages | |
| Turkmen language | |
| Religion | |
| Mostly Sunni Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Other Turkic peoples | |
Turkmens are one of the main Turkic ethnic group in Central Asia, mainly in Turkmenistan, ethnic minorities in Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Afghanistan and Iran. They speak Turkmen language of the Turkic languages family. Engagements, marriages, and the circumcision of boys, known as the sünnet parties, are big festivals.
The term Turkoman was also used for people who take a Turkish identity and lost there own original Background, as example in the case of the so called Balkan Turkoman Gipsys, a subgroup of the Xoraxane Roma.[1]